The 2018 midterms were a blue wave — despite what Fox News hosts blared on Wednesday morning, mimicking the line White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders offered late on election day.[...]

The first affirmation of the wave was the volume of voters. As millions of votes are still being counted (in states like California), the votes cast so far total approximately 100 million, with experts estimating that figure will reach 111 million — a 47.3 percent national turnout. That is the first 100-million voter midterm, and the highest turnout since 1970, according to the University of Florida’s Michael McDonald.[...] As of Wednesday morning, the New York Times’ live (and therefore slowly updating) dashboard of results showed there were 4 million more votes for Democratic House candidates and 12.1 million more votes for Democratic Senate candidates.* That’s a blue wave by any fact-based measure.

Wonderful to see so many people at our Sun., Aug. 26, 2018

Summer Garden Party

We sold out and had close to 200 in attendance!

To those who missed this opportunity, don't worry -- we'll keep working to bring you more

Kudos to everyone who showed up at the PaliDems / Heal the Bay beach weekend cleanup and pitched in!

Here's just some of what you helped remove and catalog:

PaliDems at Palisades 4th of July parade

Wow, what fun to be out in force reminding the community there's hope for a better way and a better world! Thanks to everyone who signed up to walk with us in the parade and got their free PPDC t-shirts....

Thanks too to the phenomenal, eloquent, inspirational panel!

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Full house at May's

Hot Topic Speaker Series event

Fake News and the Modern Consumer

PPDC brought in journalism professionals with local and global experience to talk about how to discern and treat fake news and identify spin on a Tuesday night, and you filled the room -- thanks for making time to come!

Above, at lectern: PaliDems President Erika Feresten

Guests:

Terry McCarthy

President & CEO, Los Angeles World Affairs Council

Bill Bruns

Lifelong journalist & Editorial Adviser, Palisades News

John Harlow

Editor-in-Chief, Palisadian-Post and former Guardian reporter

Maryam Zar

Former foreign correspondent & moderator

Wow and WOW.

So many of you showed up for the March for Our Lives, both downtown and in Santa Monica.

The passion, the energy, the spicy signage, the orange, the solidarity ... all incredibly inspiring!

Special thanks to those who rode on our bus

and marched holding the PaliDems banner. : )

Our January Annual Meeting (open to all!) with

State Sen. BEN ALLEN

Assemblymember RICHARD BLOOM

City Councilmember MIKE BONIN

County Supervisor SHEILA KUEHL

was a huge success, with over 200 in attendance to hear what's in store for 2018

The Pacific Palisades Democratic Club (aka PaliDems, or PPDC) is one of the largest, most active Democratic clubs in Southern California. Since our founding in the 1950s, we've been working to insure that the following Democratic values and goals stay or become fundamental American priorities:

Women’s access to abortion and contraceptionScientific research and developmentElecting progressive Democrats to city, state, county, and federal offices Environmental protection, addressing climate changeImproved and expanded Medicare-for-All, single-payer system